history

Talking Sticks

the insects path
tell
the woodland’s story

Boarded Up

what mysteries
and whose histories
are stored inside?

Topography

here it is recorded
every nuance
of each day

Emergence

the past
arises
from the ice

Account of the Past

history’s
story written
in bricks

Dwelling

the old barn
is history’s house
home of every season’s work

the pinecone
elucidates the pine tree
on how things came to be

Foothold

the ancient ones
leave their footprints
above and below the land.

Wisdom

The gnarled tree
holds the history and tells the story
of the woods.

Listen closely.

Legacy

Way out back in the shanty shack
tools rust and cobwebs gather
waiting for you to find your history.

Journey

A singular leaf rides the river
carrying the history of this autumn
in its colors.

Time

You no longer tell time by new rings.
Now as a beam, you measure time
by the nights and days of shelter you provide,
absorbing laughter and tears into your fibers and history.

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